Topic List for

• Literary Criticism (English 399) Syllabus
• The role of THEORY
• Roles of Criticism
• Traditional Literary Criticism
• Dictionary of Terms and Tropes.
   (with thanks to the University of Kentucky's Classics Department)
•  Magritte's Pipe.
• The Gift I promised  

• Gothic Novel
• Horror

Specific Theorists and Schools of Thought

• Pre Hellenic Greece
• Draco and Solon
• Homer and Hesiod
• Pre Hellenic Thinkers
• Social and Cultural Influences on the Greek Enlightenment
  podcast:  audiobook version of The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• Sophists
• Pythagoras
• Socrates
• Plato
  link:  Plato's Cave
  link:  etext of Euthyphro (Gutenberg)
  podcast:  audiobook version of Plato's Euthyphro
  link:  Wikipedia on Plato
• The Works of Aristotle.
  link:  Wikipedia on Aristotle
  link:  Wikipedia on Poetics
  link:  e-text of Poetics on Gutenberg
  podcast:  audiobook version of Poetics (librivox)
• The Works of Isocrates
• Demosthenes
• The Roman Empire
• Cicero
• Quintilian
• Francis Bacon, St. Augustine, and the rest...
  podcast:  Critical Theory  St. Augustine  (direct Link to file)
  podcast:  Sir Francis Bacon  (direct link to file)
•  Rene Descartes
  podcast:  Rene Descartes (pt.1)  (direct link to file)
  podcast:  audiobook version of Descarges'  Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences  (Librivox)
  link:  etext online free text of this book at Gutenberg
  link:  Wikipedia on Descartes
•  Giambattista Vico
•  John Locke
•  Sir Isaac Newton
•  David Hume
•  Immanuel Kant
• Hermeneutics
• Habermaas
• Marx and marxism
  link:  etext online full text of the Manifesto
  podcast:  audiobook version of the Manifesto (Librivox)
  link:  Wikipedia on Marx
• Friedrich Nietzsche
  link:  full etext of Beyond Good and Evil  online
  podcast:  audiobook version of Beyond Good and Evil (Librvox)
  link:  Wikipedia on Nietzsche
• Sigmund Freud
•  I.A. Richards
•  Ferdinand de Saussure
• Michel Foucault
• Narrative Theory 
• Convergence Theory and Fantasy Theme Analysis
• Feminist Criticism
• PostModernism

Assignments, sample examinations, sample documents

• First paper assignment
• Second paperassignment.
• First paper sample: FLOOD
• Sample Mid Term Examination
• Sample Final Examination
• The real Mid Term

• Dramatic Gifts of the Greeks  (direct link to file)  lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 9/06
• Pythagoras and Plato  (direct link to file)   lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 9/06. 
• Critical Theory  St. Augustine  (direct Link to file) lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 9/06.
• Critical Theory  Sir Francis Bacon  (direct link to file) lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 9/06
• Critical Theory  Rene Descartes (pt.1)  (direct link to file)  lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 9/06
•  Saussure and Structuralism   (direct link to file) lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 6/26/6.
•  Foucault   (direct link to file)  lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 6/28/6
•  Feminism Part One of two  (direct link to file)  lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 7/5/6
•  Feminism Part Two of two  (direct link to file)  lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 7/6/6
•  Freud  Part One of two   (direct link to file)      lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 7/9/6
•  Freud  Part two of two   (direct link to file)     lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 7/10/6
•  Jung  Part one of two   (direct link to file)    lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 7/11/6
•  Jung  Part two of two   (direct link to file)    lecture by Dr. Murphy, recorded 7/13/6